The Messara plain · Tympaki, Crete · Est. 1983
Single-variety Koroneiki, grown and pressed on this plain at the Kydonakis family’s own mill since 1983.
The line · From the branch, to the case.
Seven operations, every oil, in the order they happen.
01 / 07 The grove
It begins in the grove, early in the season.Koroneiki olives from the family’s groves on the Messara plain, picked in the first weeks of the harvest, while the fruit is still green.
Koroneiki · early harvest · PDO Messara
02 / 07 The fruit
Off the tree, into the crate.The fruit is crated in the grove and driven to the mill on the Tympaki road, where it is weighed and goes onto the line.
Crated in the grove · driven to the mill
03 / 07 The intake
Ten tonnes an hour, straight off the plain.The mill stands among the groves. Fruit arrives, is weighed, and goes onto the line at ten tonnes an hour.
Intake 10 t / hour · straight onto the line
04 / 07 The wash
Leaves off, dust off.Leaves and dust are stripped and washed away before milling. Only clean fruit goes into the mill.
Washed and de-leafed · fruit only
05 / 07 The mill
Crushed, stirred, and spun apart.The olives are crushed to a paste and stirred below 27 °C for no more than forty minutes, then the oil is separated cold. Nothing is heated, nothing is added.
Malaxation ≤27°C / ≤40 min
FSSC 22000
06 / 07 The fill
Kept in steel, bottled to order.The new oil rests in stainless steel tanks and is bottled when it is ordered. Every bottle carries the number of its lot.
Glass, tin, bulk · lot-numbered
07 / 07 The case
Packed at the mill, sent to 49 countries.Cases are packed and loaded in the mill’s own yard, traceable from the grove to the bottle, and shipped to forty-nine countries.
Traceability grove to bottle · 49 countries
17:15 · The first taste
One plain, one variety, one mill.
Everything else is patience.
The house · Tympaki, since 1983
Kydonakis Bros have pressed and bottled the Messara’s fruit since 1983, under their own labels and under other people’s. Two brothers, one plant on the Tympaki road, and the people who run the line beside them.
Expressions of one plain
The flagship, PDO Messara
The flagship: single-variety Koroneiki from the groves of the Messara, pressed cold at the family mill and carrying the plain’s Protected Designation of Origin. Golden-green, delicately fruity, balanced from the first taste to the finish.
Organic, early harvest, exceptionally high polyphenols
Picked green, in the first weeks of the harvest: an organic oil with exceptionally high polyphenols and the robust, peppery flavour that comes with them. Fresh fruit, antioxidants, and a farm certified GR-BIO-15.
Premium organic, early harvest
A limited edition from the early harvest of select Koroneiki, grown by a small group of organic farmers on the Messara plain. Vibrant golden-green, complex and fruity, in a hand-painted black Ramona flask.
Certified organic, PDO Messara
Certified organic Koroneiki from the heart of the Messara, cold-extracted and bottled at the mill. Intensely fruity, delicate on the nose, smooth and harmonious to the finish: a pillar of the Mediterranean diet, with the organic and the PDO marks both on the label.
Harvested, milled and bottled within one day
Harvest, milling and bottling in a single day. That one day is what keeps the acidity below 0.30%, the polyphenols high, and the fruit’s aroma, freshness and gentle spice intact in the bottle.
Συλλογή, the Messara valley selection
The valley’s selection: a Cretan extra virgin from the finest Koroneiki of the Messara, rich and fruity on the nose, high in nutritional value, in the marasca bottle and the five-litre tin.
Your brand, our mill: bottled, tinned or in bulk
The mill in Tympaki produces award-winning oils for client brands as well as its own. Brand exclusivity, certified quality, flexible specifications and packaging, speed to market.
The range · standing together
The Messara
PDO zone · Reg. 972/2013
Tympaki sits on the Messara, the long plain that runs across the south of Crete between Psiloritis and the Asterousia. It is the last farmed plain in Europe before Africa: thirty-five degrees north, sheltered from the north wind, and the floor every oil in the range comes off.
Markets49
The mill packs, palletises and loads its own containers. Every lot leaves Tympaki traceable by number, under one roof and one set of standards, which is why a buyer four time zones away can order the same oil twice.
01 · The place the oil is from02 · The places it goes to
Certifications and traceability
Organic, certified.
EU Organic
TÜV Austria Hellas (GR-BIO-15)
Valid Dec 2025 – Dec 2026
GR-BIO-15.300-0079890.2025.001
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Origin, protected.
PDO Messara
ELGO DIMITRA / AGROCERT, Ministry of Rural Development & Food
Valid Nov 2023 – Nov 2026
POC/2403-20889.13
Food safety, audited.
FSSC 22000 v6
TÜV Austria Hellas
Valid Mar 2026 – Mar 2028
20103190001485
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Kosher, supervised.
Kosher
European Kosher, Brussels
Valid Apr 2026 – Mar 2027
630-2636/01
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Lot traceability
Every bottle carries its number.
Every unit carries a lot number tracing back to grove, analysis and production run. Certificates of analysis are available per lot on request.
0407022013
Tympaki, Messara plain, Crete
The mill in Tympaki produces award-winning oils for client brands as well as its own. Brand exclusivity, certified quality, flexible specifications and packaging, speed to market.
